On 1/19/98 6:13 PM, Colin Wood at cwood@ichips.intel.com wrote:

>> What is =

>> different, other than the method used to get the source into my machin=
e =

>> for compiling?  I guess I am not following you.
>
>The difference is that packages provided by NetBSD's package system are
>supposed to be preconfigured and patched in such a way as to provide
>completely compatible NetBSD distributions.  In other words, it should
>just work for you if you use the package.  Of course, this is the way it=
's
>_supposed_ to work, whether this is actually observed behavior or not is=

>another story entirely ;-)
>

OK, well that is an advantage worth looking into.  Guess I'm off to the =

packages!

(BTW, a recent compile of perl 5.003 on my machine failed again.)

Cheers,

Sean.


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